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Karma Points and Ranks

Submitted by Jiyambi on Mon, 2010-06-28 00:00

Karma Points are a measure of a user's contribution to the WoW-Pro community. They are awarded for any action which helps enrich the community, including writing guides, leaving helpful comments, and working on the WoW-Pro Addon. You can also lose Karma Points if you do things that harm the community, such as leaving harmful comments or extremely inaccurate or harmful guides.

Ranks are awarded to users at certain Karma levels to allow them privileges on the website. Unlocked privileges include skipping the comment moderation queue, ability to revert bad revisions to wiki pages, and the ability to post news on the front page of the site. You can view the current highest ranking members by selecting the Rankings link at the top of each page.

I'll explain the different ranks and the methods for earning Karma below.

You can gain Karma points in three ways: comments, guides, and addon work. Comments and guides that actually detract from the site will result in a loss of Karma. Note that blatant trolling, flaming, or spam can still result in an immediate ban at the administrator's discretion

Comments:

Useful comment = +1 Karma

Very useful comment = +2 Karma

Bad comment = -1 Karma

Very bad comment = -2 Karma

Guides:

Okay Guide (two stars) = +2 Karma

Good Guide (three stars) = +4 Karma

Very good Guide (four stars) = +6 Karma

Awesome Guide (five stars) = +8 Karma

Bad guide (one star) = -1 Karma

Blogs:

Useful blog = +2 Karma

Very useful blog = +4 Karma

Bad blog = -1 Karma

Very bad blog = -2 Karma

Addon:

Test one guide = +2 Karma

Update/revise code for one guide = +4 Karma

Code one guide from the website = +6 Karma

Code one guide from scratch = varies, based on the quality of the guide(see "Guides" above)

Detailed bug report = +1 or 2 Karma (varies, like comments above)

Bug fix = +4 Karma

Minor feature addition = +6 Karma

Major feature addition = +8 Karma

I didn't include any penalties for addon work considering addon submissions will all be approved by me or Jame before they are released to the site. Also note that by one guide I mean the full guide, not just the part for a single zone. An example would be the full Jame's 21-31 guide, not just the 28 step section involving Stonetalon Mountains.

Please post a comment if anything here needs to be clarified or if you have any other questions.

With all the excitement of finally getting a beta invite, and the frantic work on the addon, I managed to completely forget about Karma point updates for a while there! Sorry about that, folks.

I tried to get credit in for all of the comments over the last week or so, but I may have missed one here or there. If so, I apologize. I will do my best to keep up in the future

I am 99% sure I recorded credit for all *guides* released in that time. If you think you were missed, please let me know.

Finally, I did my best to assign credit for addon work and testing. I don't know everyone who reports on github or the addon sites, so if you did, please let me know who you are and I'll make sure you get Karma. Gameldar, Pretzl, TwoToad, BrianAT, rpotor, and Torak75 - thank you all for your contributions to the addon, you should have received Karma points accordingly

Keep up the good work everyone! We have a slew of new Trusted and Honored members after this update, I'm very happy to welcome you all to the ranks!

Karma was always a great motivator for me, and I think the awarding system will encourage other members (and lurkers) to be more active, too.

Hopefully there will be a new and revived group of members that will contribute greatly to this site, as others and themselves have done in the past.

Retirees such as myself, however, will be caught up by others and no longer possess an unique rank and status.

Oh well, what is the point for a wow-retiree to be exalted? My guides will all be out-dated shortly and my contribution to this site will only have had a temporary value. I arose in the ranks very fast, but I now realise that the tale about the rabbit and the snail is true: in the end, the snail slowly surpasses the sleeping rabbit.

Heh, well any retirees that return to activity won't get passed up! Though I know you're no longer playing. You'll always be respected for your contributions, even if they are out of date

It was never our intention to stop rewarding Karma, we simply got overwhelmed with all the stuff going on with the addon and with real life issues. I definitely hope rewarding it again will help to re-invigorate the community

So when it says Guide from scratch, does that include converting an existing web guide that wasn't in the old add-on or just everything from start to finish? If the former, then that is 2 guides there, and I revised one...or two guides I don't recall before the autoconverter.